The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1887-09-22
GENERAL NEWS.
Doings Throughout the World and
the Nation.
Items Taken From the Latest TeIe
graphic Reports on Subjects
of Interest.

items ! 1ken from the Latest S'S>
graphic Reports on Subjects
of Interest.
A gale from the northeast Saturday
night caused great damage at Portugal
Cove, Nova Scotia.
The steamers Champagne, Alaska and
Germania brought 1884, Geo in gold to
New York last Monday.
Eight men were killed by boiler ex-
p)osion on board the West India steamer
Elbe during a trial trip in Stokes Bay
last Monday.
Annie and Amelia Thompson, sisters,
and Charles Brown were drowned in
slough six miles south of Blacktoot,
Idaho, recently.
A young drug clerk from New York,
who lost his all in gambling at the
Nicollet House, Minneapolis, committed
suicide recently.
Nine indictments were returned by the
grand jury, at Chicago, against the four
persons alleged to have been abettors in
Boodler McGarigle's escape.
Reports from Mississippi indicate that
the cotton crop will fall short. Tennes-
see, North and South Carolina report
cotton progressing favorably.
Maurice Bernhardt, last Sunday, at
Paris, severely wounded a Journalist
named Alexis, who had written an aIti-
Gle rejecting on M lie Bernhartlt, his
mother.
The doors of the First National bank
of Cory, Pennsylvania, were closed Fri
day morning by Bank Examiner Young
1t is impossible to learn the financial
| condition of the concern.
Ninety-one Cinnamon were arrested in
two Chinese stores on Clark street, Chi.
cago, last Friday night. They we're
playing bung loo. All we're bailed out
by one of the storekeepers.
Rev. DR.. McGlynn made an address be-
fore the Now York conference of y eth
odlst preachers, this morning, which
lasted an hour and half, and Was lis.
tened to by 500 ministers and others.
Captain J. B. Mullet, an officer in the
United States revenue marine service
committed suicide at San Francisco last
Sunday by shooting himself in the head
Moroseness, due to i'll health, is supposed
to be the cause of the deed.
The George Weber Brewing company
of Chicago, made an assignment last
Monday morning. Liabilities are esti.
mated at $5OO.OOO. Preferences iii the
form OF mortgages are gwen aggregatlne
$163,OOO. Assets, $350,G0O.
A table compiled from specials to the
Post, shows the gross clearings of the
leading clearing houses for the week end.
ing September II, were 1856, ,O66, ,615, an
increase of 7.3 per cent. over the core
spending week of last year.
Mercer Beasley, Jr., son of Chief JUS
tice Beasley, of New York, committed
suicide by shooting himself in the head
at Trenton, n. J., last Friday night, dy'
ing in a short time. The cause is un
known. He was brilliant lawyer.
The general passenger agents assocl
alton have adopted the system of uni
form tickets, which has been discussed
for ten years. Contracts Of all tickets art
to read alike, with orange back; first-class
green face: second, yellow; third, drab.
A son of NJ. Schnaebel, the French
Commissary, who was arrested at Pagu,
Sur Moscelle last April, has been arrest
ed and imprisoned by the authorities fo1
crossing the French frontier, near Che
mot, and afixing a reasonable placard
The steamer, Gellert, of the Hamburg
American line, from New York, Septem
Der 8, for Hamburg, lost two of her pro
peller blades, Friday. Her mails ant
passengers for the continent were LANDED
at Plymouth, Eng. The steamer vii
proceed to Cheerborg.
A dreadful collision occurred last Fr..
day on the Midland railway, England. A
train filed with excursionists who were
going to Doncaster to witness the race!
at that place, colided with another train
and was wrecked Two excursionists wer,
killed and many injured.
At Fridays meeting of Northern Pa
citic stockholders in New York the vote
of 754, 1893 shares was announced. Th'
new board of directors reelected the ole
officers, except Second Vice-President An
derson. The president was authorized tt
appoint committee to consider and ad.
just differences with the Union Pacii'
and Oregon Railway 4 Navigation com
panies.